 | Christian Lerat - Courts - 1989 - 340 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. lt is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1034 pages
...Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested,... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - Law - 1988 - 524 pages
...Marshall goes on to say, "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?" (idem). Marshall, however, undercut (dare one say "deconstructed"?) his argument in Marbury when he... | |
 | Russell L. Caplan - Law - 1988 - 265 pages
...Marshall rhetorically asked: "To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any...time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?" 60 Sensibly, Tribe argues that the courts would not be bound to treat an amendment as part of the Constitution... | |
 | Nicholas Mercuro - Political Science - 1992 - 240 pages
...judicial review was unattainable: The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited power is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. The supremacy clause itself, which provides that... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - Law - 1994 - 728 pages
...what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if thes2 limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended...do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed * * *." Id. at 176. The political question doctrine is a recognition that certain questions have been... | |
 | Robert H. Bork - Political Science - 2009 - 452 pages
...constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"9 He said that the theory of every government with a written Constitution "must be, that... | |
 | William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 pages
...Bayard vs. Singleton. (See ante, p. 55.1 purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if those limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ?• "The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time...the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested... | |
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To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished... 
